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Earlier this week Rosie O’Donnell announced that she and her girlfriend Michelle Rounds were engaged.
On her talk show, The Rosie Show, airing on OWN, the comedian took some time to talk about the engagement, how the news spread and why she is still figuring out how to talk about her love life on her television show.
On her show Rosie notes how times have changed since she had her show in 1996. Back then, no one was out on TV, and she got used to doing her show without ever talking about her love life because it wasn’t as widely accepted to be openly gay on TV back then, she says. “But now,” Rosie explains to the audience, “it’s allowed.”
Rosie explains that when the couple became engaged a while back Michelle asked her why she didn’t talk about it on the show. Rosie says she “didn’t know how.”
Now that the word is out, having gone public via Twitter, we say congratulations to Rosie and Michelle! Watch the clip of Rosie talking about her engagement below:
